<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/23/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rick Moen</b> <<a href="mailto:rick@linuxmafia.com">rick@linuxmafia.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Quoting Chris Travers (<a href="mailto:chris.travers@gmail.com">chris.travers@gmail.com</a>):<br><br>> Disagree if you will, but every community I have ever been involved in has<br>> benefitted *immensely* from list rules.
<br><br>ObVious: I did not "disagree", but rather mocked your risible and<br>illogical notion that a different subscriber expressing a viewpoint<br>constitutes "enforcement of rules" that you have an "issue" with.
<br><br>> I suppose if all of these official guidelines are just guidelines and<br>> everything *is* allowed, then I have no problem.<br><br>And which part of "In a functional sense, what's allowed on Russ's
<br>mailing list is whatever Russ is willing to stomach" have you so far<br>been unable to grok?<br><br></blockquote></div><br><br>Fair enough. These are the rules I will live by. For what it is worth, I think hiding behind old posts defining desired behavior on the list for no reason other than to protect your viewpoint from being questioned is hypoctitical, damaging to this list as a whole, and possibly damaging to OSI. Hence my request for some official guidance in these matters. Quite frankly, your opinion of me matters little.
<br><br>My rule is generally-- if it is really off-topic, don't reply to everyone on the list-- divert the thread elsewhere or condemn the thread/discussion line at some point (not the party you disagree with). Evidently this post doesn't qualify :-)
<br><br>I have been convinced that I was wrong about the GPL v3 requiring the ability to relicense contributed works, and now that I undertand why and the scope of it, my opposition aside from these lists has been increased. But I have been convinced because Mathew actually was willing to address my points and show me *where* my reading was in error. Perhaps you should try it sometime :-).
<br><br>Best Wishes,<br>Chris Travers<br>